# cooker
## English
### Etymology

From cook +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or +‎ -er (patient suffix) (apple; one who is cooked).

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈkʊkɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkʊkə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʊkə(ɹ)

### Noun

cooker (plural cookers)
* (chiefly UK, Ireland) A cookstove.
    Hypernym: stove (often synonymous)
    Coordinate terms: cooktop, hotplate; slow cooker, crockpot; rice cooker; air fryer
* (chiefly UK, Ireland, except in compounds) An appliance or utensil for cooking food.
    Hyponyms: cooktop, hotplate; slow cooker, crockpot; rice cooker; air fryer
* One who cooks.
    Synonym: cook
** 1780, [usually not considered to be by Lucian], “The Ass”, in Thomas Francklin, transl., The Works of Lucian, volume II, London: […] T. Cadell, […], page 127:[…] I am a true † cooker of men, that is to ſay, I not only dreſs and prepare ſuch vile eatables as theſe, but that green creature, called man, I kill, and cut in pieces, aye, and devour him too, heart and all.† Cooker.] Greek, Ανθρωπομαγειρον.
** 1788, Robert Galloway, “On the Birth of a Seventh Daughter, Who was born on the 10th April, 1788”, in Poems, Epistles and Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. […], Glasgow: […] W. Bell, for the Author, […], stanza IV, page 121:And, if we may believe the tale, / Her canny hand will ſcarcely fail, / Whate’er ſhe tries, to help or heal, / She’ll ſeldom blunder; / If ſhe be cooker of the kail, / She’ll gar us wonder.
** 1810, John Brewsterr, “The Retorts”, in Yorkshire Characters: […], volume I, London: […] J. F. Hughes, […], page 115:She was, in sooth, a most delicious cooker of delicious tit-bits.
** 1898 February, Canning Williams, “The Chickens’ Parade. A Story for Children.”, in George Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume XV, number 86, London: George Newnes, Ltd., […], page 231, column 1:“A most excellent cooker of eggs, is Mrs. J.,” I said to my companion (silent companions are often the best of company); “most excellent. Few people can be relied upon to always cook one’s eggs properly, but Mrs. J. is one of the few.”
** 1966 May 31, Legislature of Ontario Debates, Toronto, Ont.: The Queen’s Printer, page 4098, column 2:As the hon. Provincial Treasurer knows, he is the greatest cooker of the books, and when he leaves here he can get a job as a chef at the King Edward hotel—
** 1981, William Edmund Butterworth, Flunking Out, Four Winds Press, →ISBN, page 120:“[…] I know how to cook a steak, if you don’t.” “I am, sir, one of the world’s great cookers of steak,” Charley said.
** 1984 September 14, Mike Royko, “Just one thing’s fixed — the ribs”, in Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997, Agate Digital, published 2014, →ISBN:The question was asked by a guy named Ernie, who lives on the South Side and believes he is the greatest cooker of ribs in the land. […] Besides the admiration and envy of the nation’s rib cookers, the winner will receive a trophy and a special license plate indicating big achievement.
** 2001, Margie Lapanja, “Bread and Breakfast”, in Food Men Love: All-Time Favorite Recipes from Caesar Salad and Grilled Rib-Eye to Cinnamon Buns and Apple Pie, Berkeley, Calif.: Conari Press, →ISBN, page 29:Duke Ellington, the royal man of jazz, claimed he was the “world’s greatest cooker of eggs” and also swore by the stimulating nature of caviar.
* Ellipsis of cooking apple.
** 2004, Laura Mason, Food Culture in Great Britain, page 94:For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers.
* (slang, Australia) A person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis.
* (slang) The container in which recreational drugs are prepared.
** 1995, Reyes Ramos, An Ethnographic Study of Heroin Abuse by Mexican Americans in San Antonio, Texas, page 36:[…] does not know how to pick up the liquid from the cooker, and he asks someone else to use his rig to put his part in his rig.
* (slang, derogatory, Australia) A person who is cooked in the head; a crazy person.
* (slang, derogatory, Australia) A conspiracy theorist, especially one who is involved in politics.

#### Derived terms

* AGA cooker
* cookeress
* cooker hood
* electric cooker
* gas cooker
* multicooker
* multifunctional cooker
* pressure cooker, pressure-cooker
* rice cooker
* self-cooker
* slow cooker
* tommy cooker

#### Descendants

* → Welsh: cwcer

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Crooke, recook